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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=412666" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hymn 146</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Characters of Christ; borrowed from inanimate things in Scripture.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Go, worship at Immanuel's feet,<br>See in his face what wonders meet!<br>Earth is too narrow to express<br>His worth, his glory, or his grace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[The whole creation can afford<br>But some faint shadows of my Lord;<br>Nature, to make his beauties known,<br>Must mingle colors not her own.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Is he compared to wine or bread?<br>Dear Lord, our souls would thus be fed<br>That flesh, that dying blood of thine,<br>Is bread of life, is heav'nly wine.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Is he a tree? The world receives<br>Salvation from his healing leaves;<br>That righteous branch, that fruitful bough,<br>Is David's root and offspring too.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Is he a rose? Not Sharon yields<br>Such fragrancy in all her fields:<br>Or if the lily he assume,<br>The valleys bless the rich perfume.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Is he a vine? His heav'nly root<br>Supplies the boughs with life and fruit<br>O let a lasting union join<br>My soul the branch to Christ the vine!]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Is he the head? Each member lives,<br>And owns the vital powers he gives;<br>The saints below and saints above<br>Joined by his Spirit and his love.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Is he a fountain? There I bathe,<br>And heal the plague of sin and death<br>These waters all my soul renew,<br>And cleanse my spotted garments too.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Is he a fire? He'll purge my dross;<br>But the true gold sustains no loss:<br>Like a refiner shall he sit,<br>And tread the refuse with his feet.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Is he a rock? How firm he proves!<br>The Rock of ages never moves;<br>Yet the sweet streams that from him flow<br>Attend us all the desert through.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Is he a way? He leads to God,<br>The path is drawn in lines of blood;<br>There would I walk with hope and zeal,<br>Till I arrive at Zion's hill.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Is he a door? I'll enter in<br>Behold the pastures large and green,<br>A paradise divinely fair;<br>None but the sheep have freedom there.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Is he designed the corner-stone,<br>For men to build their heav'n upon?<br>I'll make him my foundation too,<br>Nor fear the plots of hell below.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Is he a temple? I adore<br>Th' indwelling majesty and power<br>And still to this most holy place,<br>Whene'er I pray, I turn my face.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Is he a star? He breaks the night<br>Piercing the shades with dawning light;<br>I know his glories from afar,<br>I know the bright, the morning star.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Is he a sun? His beams are grace,<br>His course is joy and righteousness;<br>Nations rejoice when he appears<br>To chase their clouds and dry their tears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O let me climb those higher skies,<br>Where storms and darkness never rise!<br>There he displays his power abroad,<br>And shines and reigns th' incarnate God.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor earth, nor seas, nor sun, nor stars,<br>Nor heav'n, his full resemblance bears;<br>His beauties we can never trace,<br>Till we behold him face to face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Isaac+Watts">Isaac Watts</a><div class=q>
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Go, worship at Immanuel's feet,
See in his face what wonders meet!
Earth is too narrow to express
His worth, his glory, or his grace.

[The whole creation can afford
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